According to Rustichini, if people's childhoods don't cultivate the competitive psyche, or if the society they live in isn't supportive of women's efforts, they're never going to succeed as entrepreneurs, no matter how long their ring fingers are.

Dr Brosnan, whose index finger is the same length as his ring finger, said: 'The results are a fascinating insight into how testosterone and oestrogen levels in the womb can effect people's choice of career and how these levels can show up in the length of fingers on our hands.

London, August 16 ( ANI ): Men with ring fingers that are shorter than their index fingers are thought to have lower levels of testosterone and thus have a better chance of recovering from prostrate cancer, a new study has claimed.

The ratio between the length of the index and ring fingers "was lower in the alcoholaddicted patients," says Johannes Kornhuber, director of the psychiatry clinic at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

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